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Praying with Every Heart (Hardcover)
Claudio Carvalhaes; Foreword by Daisy Machado; Afterword by Marc H. Ellis
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In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final
word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living
breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have
many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or
situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to
discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped
because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories
of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are
vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience
keep them going. The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience
refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation
theologies, they tell their stories in the hope that they will
expose cultures that make individuals and communities vulnerable,
and that those stories will encourage vulnerable subjects to be
resilient and bring change to theological institutions that
conserve vulnerability. Because of the location of the
contributors-the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Caribbean, and
Oceania-this book is a testimony that vulnerability is present all
over the world, and that resilience is a liberating alternative.
For four decades now, Marc H. Ellis has sought to rethink Jewish
tradition in light of the prophetic imperative, especially with
regard to the need for geopolitical justice in the context of
Israel/Palestine. Here, twenty-two contributors offer intellectual,
theological, political, and journalistic insight intoEllis's work,
connecting his theological scholarship to the particularities of
their own contexts. Some contributors reflect specifically on
Israel/Palestine while others transfer Ellis's theopolitical
discussions to other geopolitical, cultural, or religious concerns.
Yet all of them rely on Ellis's work to understand the connections
of prophetic discourses, religious demands, social movements, and
projects of social justice. Paying particular attention to global
racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, white supremacy, and current
neocolonial practices, the contributors also address minoritized
liberation theologies, the role of memory, exile and forgiveness,
biblical hermeneutics, and political thought. In diverse and
powerful ways, the contributors ground their scholarship with the
activist drive to deepen, enrich, and strengthen intellectual work
in meaningful ways.
In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final
word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living
breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have
many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or
situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to
discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped
because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories
of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are
vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience
keep them going. The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience
refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation
theologies, the contributors tell their stories in the hope that
they will expose cultures that make individuals and communities
vulnerable, and that those stories will encourage vulnerable
subjects to be resilient and bring change to theological
institutions that conserve vulnerability. Because of the location
of the contributors-in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe,
Caribbean, and Oceania-this book is testimony that vulnerability is
present all over the world, and that resilience is a liberating
alternative.
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